Word: dratvin
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...Dratvin had tossed a brick during one of last month's Coordinating Committee sessions (where most of the spade work for the more publicized Control Council is performed). He called for a four-power investigation to find out whether the British were keeping German army units poised in their zone. Britain agreed. Then the U.S. representative, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, went further: "While we're at it, let's have a real investigation of economic disarmament in all zones...
...General Dratvin retreated, refused to discuss the matter further. Dratvin's Vkhod Vospreshchyon (Entry Forbidden) was enough to keep U.S. and British investigators out of the Russian zone. Clay's proposal was kicked upstairs to the Control Council, where last week Russia's newly appointed, bemedaled Marshal Vassili Sokolovsky echoed his subordinate's Vkhod Vospreshchyon...
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